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Lot Abraham PapersCorrespondence, Civil War diaries, military records, business papers, family papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Erik Bert PapersBorn Herbert Joseph Putz. Communist journalist and editor in the 1930s of The Producers News and Farmers National Weekly; his career after 1941 was with the Daily World. Subject files, correspondence, notebooks, typescripts, and published writings regarding the link between communism and agriculture.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

James Bromwell PapersLawyer and U.S. Congressman, 1961-1965. Political and campaign related papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Steven V. Carter PapersAttorney and U.S. Representative from Iowa . Subject files relating to his year in Congress and his earlier political and legal career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Childs Family LettersLetters of the Childsfamily in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and members of the family in Clinton County , Iowa , including the towns of Low Moor, Lyons, and Camanche. Though the correspondence is carried on during the Civil War, the letters have mostly to do with domestic affairs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dick Clark papersU.S. Senator from Iowa , and educator. Arranged in 9 series, the papers consist of subject files, casework files, issue statements, clippings, audio, visual, film and photographs during his term in office. Subjects of special concern to Clark range from Africa and international relations to agriculture and conservation, Democratic Party politics to the aged, and education to transportation.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

John Walter Coverdale PapersAgriculturist. Correspondence and subject files relating to the early years of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and the American Farm Bureau Federation.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

James I. Dolliver PapersAttorney, U.S. Representative from Iowa, and Regional Legal Council for the International Cooperation Administration of the Middle East. Correspondence, speeches, and subject files relating to his career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Facts for Farmers RecordsAgricultural publication (1935-1962) edited by Charles J. Coe.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marie Giddings papersDetailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Josephine Gruhn papersBritt, Iowa-born member of the Iowa House of Representatives and vice-chair of the Committee on Agriculture during the farm crisis of the 1980s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Mary Hagen memoirMemoir describing life on a family farm near Manly, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lement Harris PapersAgricultural writer and activist. Subject files, pamphlets, correspondence, and clippings, primarily related to communism and agriculture.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Harrison County Farm Bureau scrapbookPart of the statewide, grass roots effort to provide agricultural and homemaking science to Iowa farmers in the second decade of the twentieth century.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

May Bennett Harshbarger papersSchoolteacher from eastern Carroll County, Iowa who managed the family farm after her husband's death in 1926.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Carol Hodne papersIowa farm activist who served as the first executive director of the North American Farm Alliance during the farm crisis of the 1980s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Harold E. Hughes Gubernatorial PapersGovernor and U.S. Senator from Iowa. Gubernatorial and senatorial office files relating to his political career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Ben F. Jensen PapersU.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, subject files, legislative records, and speeches relating to his career in the Congress.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Jolley Family PapersCorrespondence spanning over 40 years and three generations of an Iowa farm family. Subjects include land speculation, farming in Bremer, Blackhawk, and Woodbury counties, farm life in Iowa during the 19th century, and W.W.I.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edward Kennedy PapersJudge, economist, statistician, and union official. Papers relating primarily to Kennedy's activities with the National Farmers' Union in the 1930s. Also contains subject files relating to his work as a probate judge and with the United Mine Workers of America.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Nelson G. Kraschel PapersGovernor and Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. Papers relating to his political career and terms in office. Subject files include campaign materials, correspondence, speeches, etc.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Karl LeCompte PapersU.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, speeches, and scrapbooks relating to his political career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Wiley Mayne PapersU.S. Representative from Iowa, 1967-1975. Campaign and office files relating to his political career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edwin T. Meredith PapersAttorney and Iowa state legislator. Subject files and correspondence concerning his business, family and political career. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence dealing with business conditions during the 1920s and W.W.II, politics, family life.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Christian William Ramseyer PapersAttorney, Congressman, and U.S. Court of Claims commissioner from Iowa. Correspondence, clippings, court records and opinions, and speeches.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Milo Reno PapersFarm leader. Correspondence, typescripts of speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating primarily to the activities of the National Farmers' Holiday Association and to state Farmers' Holiday associations.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Fred Schwengel PapersU.S. Representative from Iowa to 84th-88th and 90th-92nd Congresses. Legislative and congressional papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Silas B. Silver DiaryMaryland physician. Diary includes his observations on the Civil War and politics, farming, and medicine.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Clara Steen Skott papersFree-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Laura Gibson Smith papersCasey, Iowa native who taught country school before marrying and homesteading in Wyoming in 1913. She taught school in the Philippines in the 1910s and 1920s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Clifford Thorne PapersAttorney, Iowa Railroad Commissioner and candidate for the U.S. Senate. Correspondence, speeches, notes and other material relating primarily to legal disputes involving transportation of agricultural products.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Daniel A. Wallace PapersAgricultural journalist. Business correspondence, speeches, and subject files relating to agriculture and the Wallace family.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Henry Wallace PapersFirst editor of Wallaces' Farmer. Arranged in broad subject categories and then in chronological order. Available on microfilm for use in repository, for interlibrary loan, and for purchase.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Henry C. Wallace PapersSecond editor of Wallaces' Farmer; appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by Warren Harding (1921-1924). Member of exec. committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Association. Arranged in broad subject categories. The correspondence arranged in chronological order.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections